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yesterday's delhi by john miner indistinguishable from other farmland between omro and eureka is a beautiful expanse of country that once nearly a hundred years ago was the site of the thriving little village of delhi — a village that has long since vanished almost as completely as though it had never existed today the only reminders of the forgotten settlement are an old frame house dating from the heyday of the village and a willow bordered lane once its main street delhi was founded by luke laborde a french-canadian trader little is known of the early history of the labordes in their native canada but it is certain that at least a portion of the family emi grated at an early date to the territory which is now the state of michigan cyprian tanguay's dictionnake genealogique des families canadiennes lists labordes as residents of quebec in the early and middle eighteenth century later members of the family including luke laborde were well known in green bay an unsigned letter dated green bay lake michigan november 14 1814 ends baptiste laborde the bearer of this despatch " luke laborde is known to have made two subscriptions to the green bay catholic church in 1832 and an indian claim presented by him is recorded in a journal of a council meeting held at green bay in june 1833 the names of other members of the laborde family are recorded in green bay voting lists as early as 1823 luke laborde the founder of delhi is believed to have come to this region with his reputedly full-blooded indian wife nee john miner cooperating with the oshkosh public museum has recon structed the history of delhi a ghost-town the manuscript was sent to the editor by nile behncke of the oshkosh public museum where mr miner was formerly employed the latter was graduated from the school of journalism university of wisconsin in august 1948 the author is indebted to the following persons for information on the history of delhi mr alfred laborde eureka mrs wendt oshkosh mr frank appley waukau dr emma jaeck omro mr john marrow eureka and mrs ben nelezen omro the winnebago county courthouse was visited for source material 41

Yesterday's Delhi: This article describes the ghost town of Delhi, which was located between Omro and Eureka in Winnebago County. Founded in 1846 by Luke LaBorde (dates unknown) at Waukau Creek, near the site of a post previously owned by fur trader William Powell (1810-1885), the town attracted both local Indians wanting to buy supplies and white settlers wanting to start farms. Delhi eventually had three stores, two grain mills, a hotel, schoolhouse and other buildings, and vied with Oshkosh for being named county seat. When the railroad passed it by, however, and better bridges were erected over the Fox in Omro and Eureka, the town steadily declined. By 1948, only a single house remained on the site of the once-thriving village. The author cannot explain the origin of the name. (8 pages)

yesterday's delhi by john miner indistinguishable from other farmland between omro and eureka is a beautiful expanse of country that once nearly a hundred years ago was the site of the thriving little village of delhi — a village that has long since vanished almost as completely as though it had never existed today the only reminders of the forgotten settlement are an old frame house dating from the heyday of the village and a willow bordered lane once its main street delhi was founded by luke laborde a french-canadian trader little is known of the early history of the labordes in their native canada but it is certain that at least a portion of the family emi grated at an early date to the territory which is now the state of michigan cyprian tanguay's dictionnake genealogique des families canadiennes lists labordes as residents of quebec in the early and middle eighteenth century later members of the family including luke laborde were well known in green bay an unsigned letter dated green bay lake michigan november 14 1814 ends baptiste laborde the bearer of this despatch " luke laborde is known to have made two subscriptions to the green bay catholic church in 1832 and an indian claim presented by him is recorded in a journal of a council meeting held at green bay in june 1833 the names of other members of the laborde family are recorded in green bay voting lists as early as 1823 luke laborde the founder of delhi is believed to have come to this region with his reputedly full-blooded indian wife nee john miner cooperating with the oshkosh public museum has recon structed the history of delhi a ghost-town the manuscript was sent to the editor by nile behncke of the oshkosh public museum where mr miner was formerly employed the latter was graduated from the school of journalism university of wisconsin in august 1948 the author is indebted to the following persons for information on the history of delhi mr alfred laborde eureka mrs wendt oshkosh mr frank appley waukau dr emma jaeck omro mr john marrow eureka and mrs ben nelezen omro the winnebago county courthouse was visited for source material 41